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Strength. One of the few things you can’t take from others and redistribute.
Zohran Mamdani fails at bench press while trying to show-off at Men’s Day in Brooklyn trib.al/mMWTbF3
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We weren’t going to comment on Elon and Ashley St. Clair, but we figured we should.
Here are our thoughts on it:
There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat. In the absence of an injury that prevents its being performed, everyone who lifts weights should learn to squat, correctly.
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Good morning to everyone except the “DeAdLiFtInG iSn’T wOrTh ThE rIsK!!” tribe.
Anyways. Here’s a 79 year old vet finishing 180x3. He started with a 15lb bar in the rack above his knee 7 months ago.
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“Congrats babe! Is 405 a lot? Deadlift? That’s the one you put over your head right?”
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Saved you a click
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We are implementing the following tariffs:
Trap bars: 100%
Smith Machines: 90%
Sumo Deadlifts: 90%
Gallons of Milk: 0%
Anything labeled “vegan”: 1000%
Using the phrase “risk/reward” in the context of the deadlift: 1000%
These go into effect immediately.
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Few know this, but Rip does the knurling for every SS barbell by hand. Himself. Because he loves you.
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Deadlifts and barbell squats for a low back in chronic pain sounds like the stupidest idea that has ever appeared in print, I know. It flies in the face of The Conventional Wisdom. The fact is that it works nearly 100% of the time if you do it correctly, and that 90% of the time a stronger back not only stops hurting but also returns you to full unencumbered activity in less than a month.
Weekend Archives: Back Pain and Back Strength
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Last week’s accomplishments:
1. Squat
2. Press
3. Bench
4. Brooding over the fall of Constantinople
5. Deadlift
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If you’re a guy in your early 20s, buy Starting Strength Basic Barbell Training, 3rd Ed.
Go into debt if you have to
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Counterpoint: a book on the subject written by a physician and @BakerBarbell, with a forward by @nntaleb that’s sold thousands and thousands of copies.
2 exercises I've stopped doing at 45:
1) Back squats
2) Conventional deadlifts
The risk-to-reward is too high, and there are plenty of safer exercises I can do instead.
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And for those that have never seen it, here's Serge Reding's 502lb clean and press.
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With SHOT going on this week we can finally unveil what we’ve been working on
The Starting Strength bars will now take Glock mags!!!
(still no optic cut yet)
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Confession: I’m just finding out the tattoo I got 10 years ago is a VERY unpopular symbol and I’m horrified to just learn this in 2025!
I simply asked the artist to combine my two favorite things at the time: lightning bolts and Starting Strength.
Literally shaking.
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Proving That Everyone Can Get Stronger
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Me watching a dude curling in the squat rack I’m waiting for. (wishing someone would throw a 45 at him)
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91 year old Saralie putting in work at Starting Strength Boise.
Our coaches get to do cool stuff.
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In the battle for “Dumbest Sh*t You Can Do in the Gym” dominance, a new challenger has emerged to potentially unseat reigning champ Joel Seedman.
Behold the “altitude drop bench”
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POV: you’re about to have a craft IPA that tastes like pine-sol poured through a hobo’s shoe recommended to you for $15
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Evidence-based “experts” when they have to actually coach someone.
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“The Olympics has turned from a celebration of human physical performance that once transcended global politics and popular culture into a propaganda event for the dominant interpretation of global politics and popular culture.” - Rip, 2018
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"My understanding of this concept has improved, thanks to my friend Nassim Nicholas Taleb, so I thought I'd share it with you." startingstrength.com/article…
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For comparison, here’s an 82 year of Vietnam vet repping 150 for a triple. Draw whatever conclusions you see fit.
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The elites don’t want you to know this, but gravity is a psyop.
You can just load whatever you want on the bar and do it.
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No one from Starting Strength has ever said you add 5lbs in perpetuity. What a silly straw man. Grant explains.
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Hey Eric. Welcome to the cult. For your build I would try something like “frog stance” until you lose some weight. Try bringing your heels closer together. Like a couple inches apart. Then turn your toes out more to 45 degrees. This will help you get your knees and thighs out of the way, and make room for your belly to drop down and be able to set your back flat. You’ll need to take a wider grip to make room for your knees, so there is a trade off. Give it a shot.
Hey y’all, my name is Eric! I’m 47 y/o, 370lbs. I’ve been lifting for 40 days now. Currently running the Starting Strength NLP.
Today I deadlifted 245lbs. I’ve been working hard on my form. Making sure to “catch water” with my back instead of rounding. My grip is getting better each workout.
Being severely obese has its limitations but I’m not using that as an excuse, gotta get better! 😤💪🏻🔥
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Billy, this is Mark Rippetoe. He's written a top-selling book on barbell training and helped thousands get stronger. His defect is he's pink and mostly angry.
He should cost us millions. But we can get him for a case of Lone Star and a boob-shaped coffee mug.
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Bought a couple of ceramic plates from
Hoplite and they sent a couple of these stickers with the shipment 😂
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Just seems like a long-winded way of saying you're shitty at it.
While you're busy grifting basement-dwelling midwits, we've gotten thousands and thousands of regular people measurably stronger.
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It’s not like you don’t still have to do the work. They don’t magically make you jacked. I don’t know if he’s clarified anywhere, but if he’s on TRT that’s just a smart move. Other synthetics are debatable, but to each their own.
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any lifter born after 1993 can't train proper... all they know is RPE, charge they phone, stretch mediated hypertrophy, be bisexual, eat hot chip & lie
Did a whole lower body workout a few weeks ago, took the same time as it took a 20 something to work up to his 110 single. At least 5 years ago the “dumb shit” was like running Smolov or Bulgarian. The kids don’t even train hard nowadays.
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Calling yourself a strength coach and telling adults to not use barbells because dumbbells are more effective is peak clown world. It’s simply a skill issue.
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Before I was a coach, I was a janitor at MIT. I worked mostly at night and would go around the building solving complex math equations while I cleaned. One day I got caught and was forced to go talk Robin Williams every week about my feelings as punishment. Mostly we talked about bench press and my love of apples.
When I got into some legal trouble the judge gave me a choice: go to jail or become a Starting Strength Coach.
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Yup. This is exactly what happens…when nerds don’t understand how muscles or the body works.
More gym, less puppetry guys.
Demonstrating how our back is affected by different lifting positions nitter.app/ScienceGuys_/status/17…
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